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“War remains the decisive human failure.”

Humans War Peace Remains Anti War Antiwar Peace War

Book:The Economics of Innocent Fraud

Source: The Economics of Innocent Fraud

“Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.”

Remember Suffering House Peace Imagination Empty Remains Thieves Empty Houses

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.”

Mean War Turns Peace Victory Remains Circles Tides Reverse Nevertheless

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.”

Mind Littles Use Truth Peace Chance Levels Emotion Attention Higher Offers Goodness Remains Affair Fixed Peace Of Mind Confined Higher Level

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

“There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.”

People Stills Done Facts Lasts Peace Security Lessons Remains Agreement Crucial Signing Work To Be Done Peace And Security

Author:Hillary Clinton

“So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.”

Long War States Government Peace Community Possibility Accounts Remains International Reasonable Sovereign International Community

Book:The Causes of Wars and Other Essays

Source: The Causes of Wars and Other Essays

“It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.”

Love Peace Sea Quiet Tragedy Remains Peaceful Fitting Ocean Exploration Peaceful Places

Book:Return to Titanic: a new look at the world's most famous lost ship

Source: Return to Titanic: a new look at the world's most famous lost ship

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.”

Ifs May Doe Soul Pain Suffering Peace Spring Remains This Life Preserves Firm Midst Submissive Acquiescence Exemption

Author:Francois Fenelon

“When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.”

Children Peace Parent Differences Poor Involved Models Remains Tendencies Minorities Benevolence Disparity Parent Child Protectiveness Parent Child Relationship

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.”

World Looks Matter Eye Suffering Values Peace Events Perspective Remains Suspects Oppressed Powerless World History Outcast Incomparable Great Events New Eyes

Book:Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings

Source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings